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About half of people on Medicare use hospice care before they die, but as the popular benefit turns 40 this year, it is struggling with waste, acce...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 20:42
The Affordable Care Act faces yet another in a long string of legal challenges. Last Thursday's ruling, by a conservative federal judge who has tar...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 14:07
We dig into three research papers to make sense of what will happen to 15 million people set to lose their Medicaid over the next year.
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- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 16:55
- Purchases: 1
The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital...
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 24:21
Less than a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some states are rethinking their abortion bans.
This week, reporter Alice Miranda...
- Added: Mar 13, 2023
- Length: 19:26
March 14 is date this year when U.S. working women finally reach the amount men earned by the end of last year. And that’s only when all women are...
- Added: Mar 04, 2023
- Length: 03:01
Later this year the Supreme Court is set to decide whether to close a legal pathway that Medicaid recipients have used for more than 50 years. This...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 11:27
One year of health insurance premiums for a family of four now costs as much as a car. Nine states are trying to lower those costs in an aggressive...
- Added: Feb 10, 2023
- Length: 17:45
Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...
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- Added: Feb 03, 2023
- Length: 20:23
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After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 18:07
An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 19:19
Initial screenings for breast, lung, cervical cancer are free, but expensive secondary tests can leave patients in screening purgatory.
- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 14:24
A personal and political fight to keep abortion legal in Michigan is in full swing — in the courts, on the campaign trail, at the ballot box this N...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 17:59
How one hospital is scrambling to deal with a shortage of a critical drug, and what changes are needed to fix chronic problems with the U.S. medica...
- Added: Jun 16, 2022
- Length: 19:57
In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...
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- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 26:45
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In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 04:00
The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 17:33
The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.
- Added: May 23, 2022
- Length: 18:40
Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people?
- Added: May 17, 2022
- Length: 18:14
Ray Suarez talks with The Washington Post’s Gerry Shih and Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, a Sri Lankan geopolitical analyst, to understand why-and-how Sr...
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- Added: May 12, 2022
- Length: 59:00
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On this week’s episode, we try to follow the money trail to better understand the connection between Putin’s power, his oligarchs, and whether econ...
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- Added: Apr 14, 2022
- Length: 59:00
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In an interview with Ray Suarez, retired Lt. Col. Alex Vindman speaks about his time in the Trump White House, the consequences of the politicizati...
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- Added: Mar 31, 2022
- Length: 59:00
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This week, we’re looking at three pieces of the puzzle– Belarus, Georgia, and Armenia–and how each post-communist republic’s struggle to define its...
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- Added: Mar 23, 2022
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A pharmacist and co-owner of an independent pharmacy in Iowa shares what life is like nearly two years into the pandemic.
- Added: Feb 10, 2022
- Length: 17:28
One year after supporters of former President Donald Trump violently stormed the Capitol, how do we make sense of the January 6 insurrection?
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- Added: Jan 05, 2022
- Length: 59:00
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